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Pay Attention — to improve your skill development
If you want to learn anything, paying attention is essential.
Only by paying attention to the information that matters, can we act on it, direct our behaviour in the desired direction and hopefully improve.
To improve, it is necessary to both pay attention and know where to focus the attention. It doesn’t help much to pay attention, if you have no idea where to look.
A coach or teacher can often be helpful to direct your attention in a useful direction. But as you improve a skill, you will usually become better at deciding where you should focus in order to improve.
A distracted world
Your attention is one of the most valuable things you possess, which is why everyone wants to steal it from you. First you must protect it, and then you must point it in the right direction. -Austin Kleon
Nowadays, we are constantly bombarded by things that are aiming to attract our attention. Whether it’s Instagram, Netflix or YouTube. They all make a living on getting a hold of your attention. And they are good.
Many people now live distracted lives, where they are rarely able to focus on one activity for a longer period of time. All the information that enter their life require a response, and hence requires…
